New Pictures!

Kyler emailed some new pictures today!

Change 9 Week 4

Hey! This week was awesome, we started out working like normal and then found out something that really made us start to have a hard time. We were planning on getting a couple married and they were all excited and then this last weekend they were going to be baptized, but with the wedding we ran into some complications. We needed a paper from Guayaquil and when we found out that it wasn't going to be able to make it in time we felt horrible. On Thursday night we had to report to our zone leaders that our baptisms fell through and that we did everything that we could. I went to sleep that night praying for a miracle and not knowing what was going to happen, and then Friday morning came and the leaders called and said that there were other solutions and that it all was going to be possible if we acted fast. On Friday the couple got married and the events that lead up to it were absolutely just amazing, it worked out perfect and I know that we witnessed a miracle here in Ecuador. I know that the Lord was watching over us and really helped us out getting this family married so that they could get baptized this Sunday. They were baptized and confirmed on Sunday and it was a really great experience. I now have to start to build up my program for the future because with those 3 baptisms we pretty much now need to find new people and start preparing them for baptism here in March. I know that this month is going to be good because this is a great sector and the members are the absolute best. Me and Elder Hafer are doing good, we get along well and are working well together. I still don't have my own house, but we're working on that and hopefully it all works out well. I hope that I get to stay here in this sector a while, but I don't know. These past 3 weeks have been great and I'm super excited to keep working hard and having success. I love and miss you all please write me and let me know how things are going. ELDER WILSON

Still no mail:(

Change 9 Week 3

Hey! This week was awesome, we had a good week working with my new companion here in Machala. It's super hot and I don't know how I'm used to it and not dying every day because every time Ii go to sleep at night I look at my clock and its 83 or 84 degrees in my house. We have a fan but it doesn't work all that good. I actually don't have my own house yet, I live with my district leader and his house only had the necessities for 2 missionaries but we're making it work for all 4 of us while the office is getting everything taken care of for my new house. We're supposed to be moving in sometime soon, before I got here it rained hard and flooded the house where the missonaries of my sector were working and so they had to rescue what they could and we are hopefully going to get all new things when we get our new house. I sure hope so but then again I'm comfortable and happy living where I do because we're 4 North Americans that live together and it's fun to talk about things that happened in the states. On the work side this week we should be having a wedding for a family that has plans to get baptized. The parents aren't married but this Friday we should be having the wedding and then this Sunday they are hopefully going to get baptized the family of 3. That will finish off my work for February and then we're heading into March and that's a good thing because we have a lot of good plans to get things done and the bar has been set high for us. Our zone leaders said that as a zone we have a goal to have 24 baptisms this next month and that means that every sector has to baptize 6 people in one month. I have never done that before but me and my companion made a plan and we've got the names of the people that we want to prepare and we're going to work hard to try and get this done. Who knows it might just happen for us. I really hope that I can meet this goal and show my leaders that I'm not just any other missionary but that I'm here to do big things. As for Monday, here in Ecuador it was a holiday that's called CARNAVAL and we weren't allowed to go out all day Monday or Tuesday because sometimes it gets a little crazy with people drinking and they always like to mess with the gringos and so president just locked us all up. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to write but that's why we're here now and I hope that things are all going well in the states. I love and miss you very much!! ELDER WILSON

Kyler also mentioned in a separate email that he still has not received any mail as of Januray 25th:(

Change 9 Week 2

Hey! This week was really good here in Machala. Me and my companion are working pretty much harder than I have ever worked in my entire mission. He gets me up and going all the time and I am really enjoying working with Elder Hafer. Me and him get along well, and I keep finding out more and more about him and his family. We had a good week and are getting a bunch of people listening to the gospel, but I've found out that there's a huge problem with the people here in Machala and that's that no one get married. It's like everyone just wants to listen to our message and many want to get baptized, but there's no one here that's married to the person that they live with. It's very rare to find someone single and we are always looking for families, but every family that we seem to find the parents aren't married. it's been hard to get people excited for baptism because we have to first tell them that they have to get married and then they can get baptized. We are going to be having 2 weddings this week in our ward with our investigators, and next week we have 5 baptisms planned. It's gonig to be a ton of work and I dont know how I'm going to be able to do it, but I hope that everything works out well and that everything turns out for the best. I don't have much time to write today, pretty much just half an hour because I just got back from Guayaquil. What happened was my visa only lasts a year and it's going to expire and so I had to get up at 2 this morning to head to Guayaquil at 3:30 in the morning to get there at 7 and go with the secretary and some others from my group that had to do the same thing. I am really really tired and it's super late and that's why I'm only going to be able to write for half an hour. I love and miss you tons!! ELDER KYLER WILSON
Kyler also let me know in another email that they haven't gotten any mail, but should next week. He said, "they kicked the bad mail missionary out and are training a newbie how to run the ropes." :)

Change 9 Week 1

Hey! So this week with Elder Tlatelpa was a ton better, we were able to work really well and we even got a couple baptism dates put. We were happy to have people preparing for baptism and then the weekend came and we got to have a little fun with the sports night and I had a blast. That was really something that I loved, we didn't play soccer like you are used to seeing. They play on a concrete field that is usually right next to the church and with a soccer ball a little smaller and heavier. I didn't think that it was going to be all that great but I wanted to try something new and I found out that it was just a great time. I didn't play all that good my first time because it's something that isn't very easy, but the second week I did actually pretty good. I didn't want to stop playing, I was completely covered in sweat in like an hour because of the humidity, but it was an absolute blast! For this reason and others like the progress from the branch and help from the members I was really hoping that I wasn't going to get changed this weekend. We planned last night and then the phone rang and I had to start packing. I got changed 30 minutes south I think to a new city called MACHALA, it's on the coast and it's just about the same. I am super excited to be here because the ward where I'm going to work is super strong (from what my companion says) and we have people with a baptism date that are preparing to be baptized this month. My new companion is from the states, he's from Salt Lake City, born and raised and he is fairly new. His name is Elder Hafer and he is a good kid, I don't know him all that well because we only have a couple hours as companions, but I am super excited to be here working with him and I know that we are going to have a good time working together. I didn't get any mail last week and I don't know when I will be getting mail, but I will let you all know how things go as it happens. Thanks for always supporting me and I hope that everything is going well! I love and miss you tons!! ELDER WILSON